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In an effort to raise the bar on cargo-handling standards across Africa, Kenya is scheduled to become the first country in the world to adopt a new benchmarking tool, called Cargo Service Quality (CSQ), at all of its airports nationwide. Developed last year by The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA), the CSQ tool is made […]
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Lufthansa Cargo is further ramping up its foothold in the tech sphere by increasing its cooperation with Berlin-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider, cargo.one. This week, it acquired a minority shareholding in the one-year-old cargo-booking startup.
The platform allows carriers to digitally host and market airfreight capacity to forwarders. To date, some of cargo.one’s customers include in...
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LATAM Cargo launched a new Colombia-United States freighter operation to the Huntsville International Airport (HSV), for customer Panalpina, supported by the forwarder’s air cargo gateway at HSV.
The new weekly route, launched on Dec. 2, operates between Bogota and Huntsville, using a 50-tonne-capacity 767-300F, and takes approximately four and a half hours to fly each way. LATAM formerly transite...
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Kenya is set to become the first country to adopt TIACA’s new Cargo Service Quality (CSQ) tool nationwide.
Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) is aiming to implement the online tool at all Kenyan cargo hubs by mid-2019, allowing forwarders to rate and review service quality at the airports, providing data to improve performance.
“When the TIACA system is fully adopted by mid-2019, we will be able to pr...
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Air Europa, Spain’s second largest airline, has chosen Worldwide Flight Services (WFS) as its cargo handler at nine airports across Europe.
Commencing this month, the three-year contract gives WFS responsibility for handling the airline’s cargo volumes in Amsterdam, Brussels, Frankfurt, London Gatwick, London Heathrow, Paris Charles de Gaulle, Paris Orly, and Milan Malpensa, as well as at Air Euro...
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Freight forwarder Dachser has named Vincent Touya as managing director of its US-based organisation.
Touya, who has been with the family-owned German company for over 30 years, will join Dachser at its US regional office in Atlanta from February next year.
He succeeds Frank Guenzerodt, who had been with Dachser for 14 years. Said a Dachser spokesperson: Frank Guenzerodt was in charge of tra...
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Brazil's postal service Correios and local passenger airline Azul have gained antitrust approval for their joint venture to create a logistics platform serving Brazil's e-commerce sector.
The December 2017 Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the carrier's Azul Cargo Express unit and Correios to create a logistics company has been cleared "without restriction" by Brazil's comp...
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A report from investment bank Morgan Stanley has warned that the market is underestimating the risk that Amazon's air network poses to UPS and FedEx.
The report suggests that Amazon's network is already having an impact on the two integrator's air volumes, with more erosion expected as services are expanded further.
It predicts that Amazon Air's lanes overlap two thirds of the US domestic volumes...
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Airfreight growth improved in October as a pick up in the investment cycle helped boost demand.
The latest figures from IATA show that freight tonne kms increased by 3.1% year on year in October, which is an improvement compared with the 29-month low of 2.5% recorded in September.
The airline association said that growing international e-commerce and an upturn in the global investment cycle are su...
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